Sixers top Hornets 133-132: Most surprising stats from win

Sixers top Hornets 133-132: Most surprising stats from win

Another game, another brutal second half for the Philadelphia 76ers. After heading into halftime up 65-50 on the Charlotte Hornets, the Sixers were outscored 69-54 in the final two quarters.

Fortunately, they were able to get things going in overtime and held off the Hornets to move to 8-5 on the season. Let’s take a look at a few of the most surprising stats from this game.

Joel Embiid posts another monster line: 42/18/4/4

In most cases, I wouldn’t call any Joel Embiid stat line “surprising,” but the fact he just keeps posting numbers like this is unreal. It’s impressive enough that he’s had a double-double in 12 of the team’s first 13 games, but the fact he’s topped 20 points in 11 of those games is exceptional.

And if that’s not quite enough, he’s now had 39 or more points in three of five games played during the month of November.

Sixers’ only field goal in final 7:22 was Embiid’s 3-pointer

This pretty much sums up the whole 69-54 second half, but the only thing that kept the Sixers alive down the stretch was free throws. Philly scored 12 points outside of that 3-pointer, which included 11 free throws from Embiid and one from Ben Simmons. If not for the big man’s consistency at the line, they almost certainly would have lost this game.

Robert Covington holds Kemba Walker in check again

Walker has put together an exceptional start to this season and over his team’s first 12 games has topped 18 points in each while going for 20-plus on 10 occasions. Arguably the even more impressive stat is Walker’s consistency shooting the ball.

The Hornets star has made at least 42.9 percent of his field goal attempts in all but three games this season, and two of them came against the Sixers. Covington played a huge role in Walker making just 9-29 attempts (31 percent) and 3-14 from 3-point range (21.4 percent) on Friday.